Ask AP: Jeff Bridges

Celebrities, Celebrity Q&A, People
on May 6, 2010

Is Jeff Bridges’ wife an actress? Do they have children?
Mary Scott, Bowling Green, Ky.

Bridges, 60, met his nonacting wife, Susan, in 1974 while shooting the film Rancho Deluxe in Montana. She was working at the dude ranch where he was staying—and turned him down the first time he asked her out. Three years later, they married. The couple has three teenage daughters. Jeff, who won the best actor Oscar this year for Crazy Heart and has made more than 50 movies, says Susan “deserves a credit, too. I’m the guy who makes the buck, but she’s the one who takes care of everything else. I really am more in love with her than ever.” The actor recently began work in a new film version of True Grit in the role of Rooster Cogburn, the character originally played by John Wayne.